U.S. History Chapter 2 Section 1 Guided Reading

1. Who was the presidential candidate to portray himself as “ordinary, down to earth and common”?

2. With Jacksonian democracy, who did the right to vote expand to? Was everyone included?

3. In the 1824 presidential race, what happened to Andrew Jackson? (know Adams and Clay’s role) Was it fair?

4. What was the “Spoils System”? How did the Spoils system relate to Andrew Jackson?

5. Jackson and the Indian Removal Affairs:

Why did Southerners like him? ____________________________________________________

What was John Marshall’s role in Jackson’s Indian removal policy? _______________________

6. What was the exchange of Indian lands in the south for lands in the west called?

7. The forced march of over 15,000 Native Americans westward, resulting in over 4000 deaths from disease, exposure (not that kind), and hunger was called?

8. Nullification’s a tricky issue. What’s the book’s definition? Do you think this would present any problems?

9. So, what was the whole deal about South Carolina and tariffs? What did they threaten to do if the federal government used force to collect the taxes (tariffs)?

10. How did Jackson respond to South Carolina’s threat? (Did he, a person who believed in state’s rights support them when they threatened to secede?) What did he want to protect at all costs?

11. What did Southerners feel the industrial economy of the North encouraged? Do you think this is true today? Do businesses today encourage greed and corruption?

a. in favor of 12. Jackson was a Democrat… was he or a national bank because: _______________

b. opposed to

13. The political party that supposed a strong federal government to manage the economy was the _____________ party. Did Jackson agree with their views?

14. How did weakening the Bank hurt the economy and nation?

15. What caused the Panic of 1837? (There’s a word that starts with “S” that you need to know and it’s good to learn it here) What was a result of the Panic?

Ok… that’s actually pretty complicated stuff. So, let’s fill in the following by memory to see if this helps summarize it better. You can leave this blank for class, I don’t mind.

Nullification Crisis

Issue is over: ___________________________________________________.

Who supports the issue: __________________. Economy type: _______________.

Who opposes the issue: __________________. Economy type: ________________.

President: ____________________.

Political Party: _________________.

Vice President: ____________________.

Home State: ___________________.

Nullification Means:________________________________________________________.

State that threatened to leave: ____________________. Another word for leave: ______.

Jackson usually ______________ state’s rights, but in this case he ________________ nullification and _____________ the union.

The end results:

Jackson preserves ___________________.

The Economy and Panic of 1837

President: __________________________

Politcal party:______________________.

The National Bank: ____________________. Reasons for feeling this way_________________.

Opponents of Jackson: ___________________, favor strong federal government to manage economy.

After winning landslide election, Jackson: ________________ the banks further.

This causes: ____________________, too much money in circulation, because they are unregulated and the states print whatever they want.

Side bar: how do you make it so there is less money?

In __________ a panic starts.

Banks and businesses: ___________.

Some people also had spent lots of money on ____________ and expected the price to

keep ___________. We call this __________________.

The next election ________s win most of the seats because of the Panic.

Someone remind me to show you all U.S. History for Dummies summary of the Tariff and panic stuff… It’s really good, makes it simple to understand.

U.S. History Chapter 2 Section 2 Guided Reading

1. What was the Second Great Awakening’s message and where did it begin? Think it’s likely to be more successful than the first one?

2. Charles Grandison Finney played a role in the 2nd Great Awakening. What was it?

3. Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1830. More commonly, we call these people today what?

4. What do you know about this group of people? Just for curiosity…

5. Why were Mormons persecuted by Americans?

6. They first started in New York, but eventually moved to a town called ____________ in Illinois.

7. Finally, ____________ _______________ led them west to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

8. Not just Mormons faced persecution. Catholics also were under fire from people all across the country. Give me 3 reasons for which Catholics were hated.

9. Do you see any similarities to Mexican immigrants today and Catholics back then? What makes today’s situation any different?

10. Thomas Jefferson believed in this basic principle of government, although if you ask me, I find it odd that we put our hand on a Bible in the courtroom…

11. In what way did Congress accept Jefferson’s idea?

12. Dorothea Dix… what was her deal? You know, who did she help, how did she help them etc…

13. What was the Temperance Movement? What did they feel alcohol led to?

14. What’s a “Maine Law” (no, it’s not Albert Pujols saying the word “man”, it’s the state)

15. Dorothea Dix is to Prison and Asylum Reform as ____________ _______________ is to Public School Reform.

16. One thing Horace Mann got out of schools [that I personally think (choose your own) was / wasn’t bad) was the idea of what?

U.S. History Chapter 2 Section 3 Guided Reading

1. What was the new law passed in the U.S. in 1807? See any loopholes?

2. How did slaves keep hope alive despite brutal conditions?

3. What did Nat Turner do that your book says is important? (Where, how many killed, how long did it last, etc.)

4. Was Turner’s Revolt good or bad for slaves?

5. Know the following things that you all have had since 5th grade… Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman (and her alias), abolitionist.

6. What did William (the Lloyd) Garrison do for slavery? Did he do anything new?

7. Know who Frederick Douglass was. There’s a part of your book that says Primary Source… read his quote. It’s about the fact that FD thinks that the 4th of July is a ridiculous holiday, at least for blacks, because they aren’t free. Do you think when he got up to give his speech he should have simply said, “Thank you” and sat back down?

8. What was weird about the Grimke sisters? Do you think they had a death wish?

9. This man was the author of this book which said things like “the right of the individuals to refuse to obey laws that they feel are unjust… and an individual’s conscience (that thing that tells some of us right from wrong) is more important than the will of the majority.”

10. So the South makes some good points for why slavery should still be in existence… or do they? What are their arguments? I particularly think the one about “betterment” strikes me as funny. Not funny “haha”, but funny awkward.

11. Did all Northerners want Slavery? What were some of their fears? What was the reasoning behind these fears? What happened to “The Lloyd”?

12. What was the Gag Rule that Congress passed in 1836? Think it was a good effort to fix problems, or just kind of side-stepping the issue?

U.S. History Chapter 2 Section 4 Guided Reading

1. Why did women comprise the majority of the community leaders during the Temperance movement?

2. Sojourner Truth… she was a slave who went on a Journey to the North in order to speak the Truth about slavery. See what I just did there?

3. Women in the workplace- How did entering the workforce change women’s independence?

4. What two trends led women to enter the workforce?

5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were denied the right to speak at what conference? Where did it take place?

6. Seneca Falls Convention

a. What did they draft that was based on the Declaration?

b. Although it didn’t really do much, it marked the beginning of what?

c. Suffrage… know what it means.

7. So, do women still lack respect in today’s society? Give me one example to back up your claim.

Section 5… Manifest Destiny

8. Those Americans who favored expanding into the West and South of America were known as?

9. The idea of Manifest Destiny was that Americans would come to own most or all of North America. What hope did Southern slaveholders hope would come from Manifest Destiny?

10. What was the most famous pass that led West?

11. Easy or tough for Americans who went west? What types of problems did they face?

12. How would Native Americans not changing their ways cause problems with Americans?

13. If Americans who settled in Texas agreed to become Mexican citizens, worshipped as Roman Catholics, and accepted the Mexican constitution (outlawed slavery), then what would they be given? What were these people called? More of them or less than actual Mexican citizens who settled in Texas?

14. Who led Mexico in the Mexican-American War? Most famous battle? (in America’s eyes) Who led the Americans?

15. Why did Northerners not want to annex Texas?

16. What did the 49th parallel establish? What was the argument concerning the Southern border?

17. What advantages did the U.S. have in the War?

18. How much did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo increase the size of the U.S.?

19. They found gold in CA. What was the % population increase from 1847 to 1852?

20. What group was most discriminated against by White Americans?

21. Life was (good / bad) in mining camps. Choose one.

22. What was the controversy about allowing California into the Union? Ridiculous… you know why.

Any questions that you have? ___________________________________________________________

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Suggestions on how to better teach this chapter _____________________________________________

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